(1) What is
meant by the term race (or racial group)? What is meant by
the term ethnicity (or ethnic group)?

(2)
Distinguish a minority group, a majority group and a dominant
group. What characteristics define a minority group?

(3) What is
the difference between prejudice, racism and discrimination?
What role does ethnocentrism play in prejudice? What other factors
lead to prejudice? To discrimination?

(4) What is
meant by institutional discrimination? How is institutional
discrimination different from other forms of discrimination? Provide an
example that illustrates institutional discrimination.

(5) Describe
the characteristics of each of the following patterns of intergroup relations:
genocide, amalgamation, assimilation, segregation,
and pluralism (or multiculturalism). Which of these
approaches have been tried in the United States? What were the results?

(6) Describe
cultural and structural characteristics of each of the following groups:
White Americans, African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos,
Jewish Americans. How much diversity exists within each group?

(7) How has
immigration to the United States changed over the years? What have been
some of the effects of changes in immigration policy? Of changes in the
sources of immigration to the U.S.?

(8) Use the
concepts of recognition, time and space to describe the
experiences of black students on white college campuses. How do
conflicting perceptions of recognition, time and space perpetuate racial
discrimination on college campuses? In other social settings?